For the bibliography of my book, I have about 1000 entries. Since it is difficult to program in Latex the style for all kind of entry types, I want to implement only one general type - misc.
This type should contain all import fields like author, title, year, etc. Not supportet information should only generate blank fields.
Although I can define those universal nececessary entry fields within the JabRef preferences, I need the merging and unification also by the fetchers when they get the information online.
It seems that this is not user definable. So, I have to program it myself.
My question: Which module should I select for this kind of adaption? Or does the architecture prohibit this? Is this task too complicated and better manually resolved?
Hi Rudi, i suspect you have misunderstood latex a little bit. Latex is all about separating style from content: the content of your book as well as the citations from their style in the bibliography.
The basic idea is: in an ideal world you describe in the most precise way the type of the citation you have and you put a reference (“citationkey”) in you text, configure latex and then you let latex and bibtex/biblatex do the magic. And in the end a perfectly formatted document is created. Of course, there are always glitches and bugs that have to be fixed “manually”. You don’t have to program the style for 1000 kind of entry types, because there exists already a lot of styles created and provided from nice people aroung the world. E.g. if you working in humanities in germany I would suggest you take a look at biblatex-dw – Dominik Waßenhoven ❧ Historiker .
Also note that JabRef is essentially an editor for bib files, that provide the pure citation information, which is processed by latex and biblatex.
I understand the question to mean “How do I make all entries have the same output format, where the output contains all the fields I want and ignores any others?”. See: Universal Import Filter
Option1: Apply the same output format to all entry types. Output styles typically contain different fields for different entry types, so I think this option would require the creation of a style that includes a default output format and no entry-type-specific formats.
Option 2: Convert all entries to the same entry type to force the same output style apply to all entries.
